Reading the receipts: last week's 20 cards, losers included

Welcome to this edition of Trading Strategy Guides.

Every market day, Options Recon puts one short list in front of you: the Daily Top 5, the five most convinced options bets of the session, pieced back together from orders that were split up across exchanges, and ranked.

Here's every card from last week's Monday-to-Thursday boards, priced since. Winners and losers, nothing hidden.

9 of the 20 cards traded 50% or more above that evening's close. Four of them more than doubled:

• BMY $62 puts (Mon): $324,000 at noon. $0.89 → $3.74.
• CRM $232.50 calls (Wed): $535,598 at 9:50 AM, two days to expiry. $1.95 → $7.20, as CRM ran 7.5%.
• DE $650 puts (Tue): $857,850 at 3:37 PM. $6.40 → $18.20.
• AFRM $71 calls (Wed): $305,657 at 3:45 PM. $0.76 → $1.80.

And some didn't work at all: ON's $82 puts are down 46%. A big bet means big confidence, not a certainty. That's why we show dated receipts instead of a win rate.

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